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Film · 1945 · Romantic drama
Brief Encounter
Directed by David Lean
1945
★ 6.9 editorial score
Two married people meet by chance in a railway station and keep meeting, and what they hold back is what destroys audiences: Lean does it in glances and Rachmaninov.
“For a generation that remembers when the trains ran on time and station buffets were as tidy and inviting as the one in this movie, "Brief Encounter" is etched in nostalgia for an era when trapped middle-class lives contemplated adultery but set the disturbing thought aside.”
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